If you have been following QUEERGURU for some time now you’ll know that we have always been avid fans of Peccadillo Pictures ‘BOYS ON FILM’ series of compilations of the best of queer short movies. The UK LGBT film distributor has just released their latest collection Vol 19 : No Ordinary Boy which is available globally on DVD or streaming.
As usual it features an intriguing eclectic mix of international films that look at so many different aspects of LGBT life. Amrou Al Khadi’s autobiographical piece Run(away) Arab looks at how a young Muslim boy with a devoted mother sheds his cultural expectations to grow up to become a glamorous drag queen.
Dean Loxton’s excellent MEATOO also based in real life is about a young actor at an audition who is asked to do things that are way beyond any decent boundary.
Trans filmmaker/activist Jake Graf picked up more awards for his latest movie DUSK about young Chris Winters struggling to grow up in 1950s England and fit into the gender roles dictated by wider society
Swedish filmmaker David Färdmar poignantly tackles the whole subject of how painful a breakup can be in No More We.
Meanwhile in Between Here and Now from Danish filmmaker Jannik Splidsboel, Tony visiting Copenhagen for the first times meets and falls in love with local boy Oscar, but it looks like a trust issue may get in the way.
Abhishek Verma’s very cute animated The Fish Curry is about cooking his father his favorite meal to pave the way for coming out to him as gay.
Scott T Hinson wrote and starred in Michael Joseph Jason John as a single man who picks up a mysterious stranger on the New York City subway and then he lets his imagination run away with him.
In Four Quartets a short from the UK by director Marco Alessi. young Raf is out on the pull but is possibly trying too hard.
Brookside actor turned director Leon Lopez’s intriguing latest short is Jermaine and Elsie, the latter is an alcoholic who now needs carers to look after her. Enter sexially ambigious Jermaine who eventually wins Elsie over before he ups and disappears without a word.
However our firm favorite has to be the totally charming Blood Out Of A Stone. Shot in London’s East End by Ben Allen it is the story of a first date where the more wordly Michael sets the somewhat naive Dan a challenge. Dan is maybe out of his comfort zone, but he nevertheless goes along with it to see if this somewhat improbable pairing can actually work.
